Seamonkey Browser

[rcarring]

Availability: now
Version: 1.02 Release
Looks Like: Mozilla but re-engineered, a Netscape for the 21st century =D
Stability: Has not crashed since installation
Where: http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey

Platforms: Windows, Linux GTK2, Mac OSX, and 64bit Linux, RPM, O/S2

Supports themes, would probably support Mozilla compatible extensions but see website for details.

Tested on: XPSP2, Ubuntu 6.06, Xubuntu 6.06, and Edgy Eft (these are systems I have installed Seamonkey on)

[shuttleworthwannabe]

is it in the repo's yet? why not?

[rcarring]

The browser is not officially supported by the Ubuntu repositories. The reason for this I don't know, it may be something to do with the license it is available under.

I would like to request that it be made available in the universe repository.

Maybe someone could do a poll to establish interest?

[RAV TUX]

Interesting to note that the Seamonkey Browser comes as the default browser on Main Release of Puppy Linux:

Puppy Linux 2.01 [NEW]
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/viewpage.php?page_id=1

Puppy Linux Main Release, puppy-2.01-seamonkey.iso

md5sum: f3b10f11b3fb326edfad2f3fdc4f3f5f puppy-2.01-seamonkey.iso

Puppy Linux with Seamonkey Download
http://www.puppylinux.org/user/downloads.php?cat_id=1&download_id=55

[RavenOfOdin]

Why anyone would name a browser after the most stupid pet toy on earth - aside from pet rocks - is beyond me. :p

[MikePnKY]

Why anyone would name a browser after the most stupid pet toy on earth - aside from pet rocks - is beyond me. :p

:-k Hey! I still have my pet rock! It's name is Potempkin :-D

[BWF89]

The browser is not officially supported by the Ubuntu repositories. The reason for this I don't know, it may be something to do with the license it is available under.
I checked Wikipedia and SeaMonkey is under the same licence as Firefox which is included with Ubuntu. The MPL, GPL, and LGPL tri-licence.

I dont know why SeaMonkey already hasn't been added to the repos. It's very useful in an office enviroment if you want all of your employees to have the same standard online suite that comes with an email viewer, a HTML editor, and a IRC client. With Firefox you have to download the barebones browser and add extensions if you want to make it into an online suite like Mozilla. Which wastes time and is unproductive.

[RAV TUX]

I have been using the latest version of Seamonkey lately and find it more stable and reliable then Firefox, It starts faster and page rendering time clocks faster. Also most of the important extension that I am used to in Firefox also work, Seamonkey is also more stable and reliable then Flock....

Try them all three out, you'll see what I mean....

Firefox Extensions that work in Seamonkey:

1. Adblock Plus
2. Adblock FilterSet.G Updater
3. Stumbleupon
4. Duplicate Tab
5. Image Zoom
6. IE Tab (on XP)
(more extensions work of course, this is just a short list of the ones I use)

Seamonkey is really much more then a browser, more of an all-one-suite, with built in Spell Checker, Address Book, E-mail client, Chatzilla,...more of a professional suite that can be more effectively used in the office

I should mention that the Themes are pretty awesome, and more can be downloaded...(unlike Flock, which still doesn't have a clue that people want Themes)

I highly suggest installing the MonkeyMenu also.
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&content=c_linuxmonkeymenu.php

The Seamonkey Council has done well.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/

[saracen]

I tried to download themes but none of them work. Something about the version being incompatible. I'm using SeaMonkey 1.0.5

[Anonii]

I have been using the latest version of Seamonkey lately and find it more stable and reliable then Firefox, It starts faster and page rendering time clocks faster. Also most of the important extension that I am used to in Firefox also work, Seamonkey is also more stable and reliable then Flock....

Try them all three out, you'll see what I mean....

Firefox Extensions that work in Seamonkey:

1. Adblock Plus
2. Adblock FilterSet.G Updater
3. Stumbleupon
4. Duplicate Tab
5. Image Zoom
6. IE Tab (on XP)
(more extensions work of course, this is just a short list of the ones I use)

Seamonkey is really much more then a browser, more of an all-one-suite, with built in Spell Checker, Address Book, E-mail client, Chatzilla,...more of a professional suite that can be more effectively used in the office

I should mention that the Themes are pretty awesome, and more can be downloaded...(unlike Flock, which still doesn't have a clue that people want Themes)

I highly suggest installing the MonkeyMenu also.
http://markbokil.org/index.php?section=tech&content=c_linuxmonkeymenu.php

The Seamonkey Council has done well.

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/

http://www.mozilla.org/projects/seamonkey/releases/
I'm using Firefox strictly for browsing. irssi is for IRC. And Evolution for emails. Do you think that Seamonkey would be better?

[dolny]

using it, liking it :)

Edit: works a lot faster than FF and Opera for me. I love it. I wish I had sound in flash :( Anybody knows how to fix it?

[marksi]

I have been using Seamonkey for a few months and find it to be really good.
However I have recently upgraded to 1.0.5 and now find that when I install pligins they are not seen by Seamonkey. How do I fix this?

[fuscia]

post cancelled (too stupid)

[Anonii]

Installed the tarball, and now I have to open it from /usr/local/seamonkey.
How can I workarround this? <:

[fuscia]

Installed the tarball, and now I have to open it from /usr/local/seamonkey.
How can I workarround this? <:

which DE/wm are you using?

[maniacmusician]

post cancelled (too stupid)
i thought it was kind of funny.

[Anonii]

which DE/wm are you using?
GNOME/Metacity

[fuscia]

GNOME/Metacity

you can open your file browser to that bin file and drag it to your toolbar.

[spockrock]

I am using firefox2 RC1 how does this compare browsing wise?? Umm about the /usr/local/seamonkey thing, couldnt you just


sudo ln -s /usr/local/seamonkey/seamonkey /usr/bin/seamonkey

that way you can just enter seamonkey in terminal or the command to launch seamonkey?

[emarkay]

Apparently problems with the Debian folks:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=471831&highlight=

[Kateikyoushi]

A pity because Seamonkey can uses less memory if you use it instead of FF and TB with no real setbacks.

[3rdalbum]

Puppy comes with Seamonkey because it always used the classic Mozilla suite. Seamonkey is practically just a different name for the same old project.

[shuttleworthwannabe]

Freshmeat (http://themes.freshmeat.net/projects/seafox/)
has a firefox like theme for seamonkey ( for those who wish to have a refresshing feel to Mozilla's classic or modern themes),

[RAV TUX]

I'm using Firefox strictly for browsing. irssi is for IRC. And Evolution for emails. Do you think that Seamonkey would be better?
yes.

[kerry_s]

If you really want to add some usefull features you should try this -> http://multizilla.mozdev.org/features/index.html
Just download it, then in terminal "sudo seamonkey" & drag and drop it in the root opened seamonkey.

[neoflight]

If you really want to add some usefull features you should try this -> http://multizilla.mozdev.org/features/index.html
Just download it, then in terminal "sudo seamonkey" & drag and drop it in the root opened seamonkey.

a .deb available for this yet?

[zcal]

I wish I had sound in flash :( Anybody knows how to fix it?

Is that a problem you had in Firefox too?

[Rodneyck]

Apparently problems with the Debian folks:

http://forums.mozillazine.org/viewtopic.php?t=471831&highlight=

Wow, a lot of debian hating going on there.

[kazuya]

On Zenwalk and Vector Linux, seamonkey is becoming a defacto browser there as well. It has not crashed yet for me and it is very light on resources.

[Tomosaur]

I just today installed Seamonkey, and I'm very, very impressed. I like it more than Firefox already! I'm surprised how it starts up faster than Firefox, yet includes more useful (for me, anyway) features.